BISON – Instantiating the Whitened Swap-Or-Not Construction

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Abstract

We give the first practical instance – BISON – of the Whitened Swap-Or-Not construction. After clarifying inherent limitations of the construction, we point out that this way of building block ciphers allows easy and very strong arguments against differential attacks.

Date
Nov 14, 2018 17:00
Event
FluxFingers Talk Series
Location
GData Academy, Bochum, Germany
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Friedrich Wiemer
PhD
Security Lead Cross-Domain ECUs
CEO and Co-Founder

My research interests include the design and analysis of symmetric primitives.